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Provide explicit "Browse" button
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Description

Context

Currently, we technically do allow users to "browse" by searching for no keyword. However, this is not intuitive to users and should provide

User Story

As a user, I want to browse Toolhub, so that I can discover new tools I didn't know about

Event Timeline

I see this in the groomed/ready column, but I don't see any functional or design requirements.

Good catch! Accidentally created in this column

This task was briefly discussed during one of our recent team meetings.

To summarize, we would most likely want the home page to not only be an entry point for tool search but to also serve as a global landing page where we could feature lists, etc. The team currently lacks ideas on how this could be implemented from a design/UX perspective so as to communicate to users that performing an empty search will yield a list of all tools and display the full search filters and facets interface.

It was suggested that we reach out to a UX designer to get feedback and that the best way to ensure the feedback is useful and nobody's time is wasted would be to prepare a short list of focused questions/possible alternatives for consideration vs. saying "pls take a look at this thing here and tell us what you think".

Drive-by comment: I highly recommend Design Research office hours for questions like this!

bd808 triaged this task as Medium priority.Apr 18 2022, 7:52 PM
bd808 moved this task from Backlog to Research needed on the Toolhub board.

It was suggested that we reach out to a UX designer to get feedback and that the best way to ensure the feedback is useful and nobody's time is wasted would be to prepare a short list of focused questions/possible alternatives for consideration vs. saying "pls take a look at this thing here and tell us what you think".

Seems like past us had a good idea. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Design_Research#Design_Research_Clinic is how to contact the researchers after making some strawdog designs/idea lists.

Slst2020 lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.Aug 26 2022, 6:36 AM
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bd808 changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Dec 4 2022, 9:54 PM
bd808 claimed this task.
bd808 changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".
bd808 moved this task from Research needed to In Progress on the Toolhub board.

Change 864254 had a related patch set uploaded (by BryanDavis; author: Bryan Davis):

[wikimedia/toolhub@main] ui(search): Move tool search bar to header

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/864254

Change 864254 merged by jenkins-bot:

[wikimedia/toolhub@main] ui(search): Move tool search bar to header

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/864254

Change 868183 had a related patch set uploaded (by BryanDavis; author: Bryan Davis):

[operations/deployment-charts@master] toolhub: bump container to 2022-12-14-185830-production

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/868183

Change 868183 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/deployment-charts@master] toolhub: bump container to 2022-12-14-185830-production

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/868183